Experimenter vs Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 6.5/10 for Experimenter). Experimenter is the shorter watch at 1h 37m compared with 2h 7m. Experimenter is the older of the two (2015 against 2016). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Experimenter posterExperimenter2015 VS Hidden Figures posterHidden Figures2016
ExperimenterHidden Figures
Audience score★ 6.5/10★ 8.1/10
Year20152016
Length1h 37m2h 7m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
Country––
DirectorMichael AlmereydaTheodore Melfi
Main castPeter Sarsgaard, Taryn Manning, Winona Ryder, Edoardo Ballerini, Dennis HaysbertJim Parsons, Aldis Hodge, Taraji P. Henson, Saniyya Sidney, Kevin Costner

Synopsis

Experimenter

Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s…

Hidden Figures

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

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